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The freeze date for OpenSSL 3.4 Alpha is rapidly approaching.

Alpha freeze approaching

The freeze date for OpenSSL 3.4 Alpha is rapidly approaching. Planned features are viewable on our 3.4 Planning page. If you have a feature on the planning page, please ensure that your associated PRs are posted, reviewed, and merged prior to the freeze date (Friday, Aug 30, 2024), or it will be postponed until the next release.

As part of our ongoing journey, OpenSSL is evolving to provide more opportunities for engagement that more effectively align with our mission statement and promote our values. OpenSSL is implementing various mechanisms to foster greater community involvement and enable our communities to play a key and active role in the decision-making process.

OpenSSL is hiring for a mid level engineer to join our team

This year, OpenSSL will be attending RSA Conference 2024, one of the world’s largest cybersecurity events. Throughout May 6-9 in San Francisco, we are seeking to engage with our communities at RSA to better understand their needs and problems.

The OpenSSL Project has returned from spending a week in February sequestered in the beautiful Australian outback discussing the past, current, and future state of the project. This in-person meeting brought together the project’s paid resources and the management committee. Our goal for this meeting was to chart the course for OpenSSL’s future, tackle current challenges, and note our collective achievements. Three project members were unable to participate in person and joined the meetings remotely.

We are pleased to announce that we have successfully distributed nearly 100 limited edition T-shirts commemorating the 25th anniversary of OpenSSL’s existence.

We appreciate the support of all our communities, users, individual contributors and support customers, without which we would not be able to continue our mission and deliver on our open source values. These continue to drive the success and evolution of OpenSSL, and we couldn’t be more appreciative.

This year, we had the privilege of participating in FOSDEM for the first time. This offered us an opportunity to engage with the open source community at the conference, share our insights, and learn from the vast pool of knowledge that FOSDEM brings together.

As many of you are aware we have undergone a lot of internal organisation changes within the OpenSSL Project in the last couple of years, one of the key changes being the introduction of the OpenSSL Working Group.